“My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.”
Zora Neale Hurston book Dust Tracks on a Road
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road
Haymitch Abernathy and Katniss (pp. 110-111)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: "This is your earpiece. I will give you exactly one more chance to wear it. If you remove it from your ear again, I'll have you fitted with this." He holds up some sort of metal headgear that I instantly name the head shackle. "It's an alternative audio unit that locks around your skull and under your chin until it's opened with a key. And I'll have the only key. If for some reason you're clever enough to disable it,"—Haymitch dumps the head shackle on the bed and whips out a tiny silver chip—"I'll authorize them to surgically implant this transmitter into your ear so that I may speak to you twenty-four hours a day."
Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying. "I'll keep the earpiece in," I mutter.
“My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.”
Zora Neale Hurston book Dust Tracks on a Road
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road
Malvina Reynolds (1900–1978) American folk singer
Song No Hole In My Head
“My head is full of fire
and grief and my tongue
runs wild, pierced
with shards of glass.”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Source: Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba
“Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
“The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Lorin Maazel (1930–2014) French-American conductor
As quoted in BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28287217
“Cram your heads full of knowledge.”
Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Life's Obligations, Ensign, Feb. 1999, 2.